Combined lamp-font and match-holding device.



PATENTED JAN. 28, 1908.

' J. MYERS. v COMBINED LAMP FONT AND MATCH HOLDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAB. 7, 1907.

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JENNIE MYERS, OF FITZLEN, OKLAHOMA.

COMBINED LAMP-FONT AND MATOHHOLDING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 28, 1908.

Application filed March 7. 1907. Serial No. 361.141.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JENNIE MYERS, a citizen of the United States, residin at Fitzlen, in the county of Woods, State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oombined Lamp-Font and Match-Holding Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to lamps that require a match to light them.

It is well known that when lighting a kerosene or other similar lamp, it is necessary, not only to have a match in readiness to light the wick of the lamp, but it is essential as well to have means upon which to scratch the match to light it.

It is the pur ose of my invention to rovide the font of a lamp with a match-ho der and an improved match-scratching means, whereby the lamp may be lighted with readiness.

The nature of the invention may be ascertained with clearness and exactness from the device portrayed in the annexed drawings, forming a part of this specification, in view of which it will first be described with respect to its construction and mode of use, and then be pointed out in the claims.

Of the said drawings-Figure 1 is a side elevation of a lamp provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken in the plane 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Similar numerals of reference designate like parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings 6 designates the font of the lamp, 7 is the chimney, and 8 designates the pedestal. The font may be of glass or other suitable substance. In the drawings, however, it may be supposed to consist of glass. In carrying out my invention, when the font is molded or otherwise constructed, I form on the side thereof at a convenient and suitable point a receptacle or box 9 suitable for holding matches, and I make the face 10 of the match-holder flat and construct the side margins of the flat side of the holder with ribs 11 under-grooved on their inner sides to receive a small sheet or card of sand-paper 12,- upon which to scratch the match, as

shown in Fig. 3.

Any form of stop, however shallow, may be provided for keeping the sand-paper sheet 11 from dropping out of the undercut grooves of the ribs 9. It is obvious, of course that a piece of any other material than sand-paper suited to igniting a match may be employed in its stead.

What I claim is Alamp font having amatch-holder molded integrally therewith on its outer side said JENNIE MYERS.

Witnesses L. WIMMER, DEWEY OUMMINs. 

